New release: dnscontrol v4.15.0 (exciting news for fans of commas!)

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Tom Limoncelli

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Dec 12, 2024, 8:56:09 PM12/12/24
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v4.15.0

Greetings and happy holidays, DNSControl fans!

Santa (or the super-natural gift-delivery being of your choice) has graced us with THREE big, new, exciting, features, plus a ton of other fixes and improvements.

BIG NEWS # 1: The last line of a D() statement can now have a comma!

In the past, leaving off the last comma would give an error:

D("example.com", REG_NONE, DnsProvider(DSP_EXAMPLE),
    A("test", "1.2.3.4")              <<< look, Ma!  No comma!
END);

### version 4.14.x:
$ dnscontrol check
executing dnsconfig.js: (anonymous): Line 183:25 Unexpected token )

### version 4.15.0:
$ dnscontrol check
No errors.

Best of all we got this feature simply by upgrading to the newest version of the JavaScript interpreter we use (https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto). In the latest release @linuxerwang (who has probably never heard of our project) submitted this enhancement in robertkrimen/otto#520 and we all benefit.

This affects all kinds of JavaScript lists, not just D() statements.

Thanks, Santa! .... I mean @linuxerwang!

BIG NEWS # 2: The default for --cmode is now concurrent.

This means your preview will run many times faster because all the domains are collected concurrently. Some people have reported runtimes are reduced 50-75%.

This change was announced months ago in #3142 plus dnscontrol printed warnings since v4.14.0.

The following providers added concurrency support in this release: CLOUDNS, CNR, DIGITALOCEAN, GANDI_V5, HETZNER, NAMECHEAP, NETLIFY

Providers that already support concurrency include: AZURE_DNS, CLOUDFLAREAPI, CSCGLOBAL, DESEC, GCLOUD, NS1, ROUTE53, TRANSIP.

This code is a bit new. If you find a bug, use --cmode=none to disable concurrency. (and file a bug report!)

BIG NEWS # 3: Notifications can now be sent using Shouterr

Notifications are now handled by the Shouterr package. Shouterr supports every chat system I've heard of, plus plenty of other systems. In the future Shouterr will become the standard way to send notifications and other methods will be deprecated. How to set up notifications is documented at https://docs.dnscontrol.org/advanced-features/notifications.

Other new features worth mentioning:

  • NEW PROVIDER: CentralNic Reseller (CNR) - formerly RRPProxy (#3203) (@AsifNawaz-cnic)
  • PORKBUN: handles retries/ratelimits better, and now also supports CAA.
  • The get-zones subcommand is more reliable, which probably also makes preview more reliable.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions! This is a community-driven project and we couldn't do it without all your PRs, reviews, and other support!

Stay safe! See you in the new year!

--Tom

Here's the details:

Changelog

Major features:

Provider-specific changes:

Documentation:

CI/CD:

Dependencies:

Other changes and improvements:

Deprecation warnings

Warning

  • REV() will switch from RFC2317 to RFC4183 in v5.0. This is a breaking change. Warnings are output if your configuration is affected. No date has been announced for v5.0. See https://docs.dnscontrol.org/language-reference/top-level-functions/revcompat
  • MSDNS maintainer needed! Without a new volunteer, this DNS provider will lose support after April 2025. See #2878
  • NAMEDOTCOM and SOFTLAYER need maintainers! These providers have no maintainer. Maintainers respond to PRs and fix bugs in a timely manner, and try to stay on top of protocol changes.
  • get-certs/ACME support is frozen and will be removed without notice between now and July 2025. It has been unsupported since December 2022. If you don't use this feature, do not start. If you do use this feature, migrate ASAP. See discussion in issues/1400

Install

macOS and Linux

Install with Homebrew (recommended)
brew install dnscontrol
Using with Docker

You can use the Docker image from Docker hub or GitHub Container Registry.

docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd):/dns" ghcr.io/stackexchange/dnscontrol preview

Anywhere else

Alternatively, you can install the latest binary (or the apt/rpm/deb/archlinux package) from this page.

Or, if you have Go installed, you can install the latest version of DNSControl with the following command:

Update

Update to the latest version depends on how you choose to install dnscontrol on your machine.

Update with Homebrew

brew upgrade dnscontrol

Alternatively, you can grab the latest binary (or the apt/rpm/deb package) from this page.

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This release has 14 assets:

  • checksums.txt
  • dnscontrol-4.15.0.amd64.deb
  • dnscontrol-4.15.0.arm64.deb
  • dnscontrol-4.15.0.arm64.rpm
  • dnscontrol-4.15.0.x86_64.rpm
  • dnscontrol_4.15.0_darwin_all.tar.gz
  • dnscontrol_4.15.0_freebsd_amd64.tar.gz
  • dnscontrol_4.15.0_freebsd_arm64.tar.gz
  • dnscontrol_4.15.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
  • dnscontrol_4.15.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz
  • dnscontrol_4.15.0_windows_amd64.zip
  • dnscontrol_4.15.0_windows_arm64.zip
  • Source code (zip)
  • Source code (tar.gz)

Visit the release page to download them.

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